Nov 03, 2017 08:59 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com
#WhatsAppDown trends on Twitter after app outage; company says issue fixed
The Facebook-owned messaging service was down, some said because of a server problem, which did not let people send or receive messages to each other.
ByMoneycontrol News
Moneycontrol News
One of the most widely used messaging applications, WhatsApp, was not working for users across the world for a few hours on Friday.
The Facebook-owned messaging service was down, some said because of a server problem, which did not let people send or receive messages to each other.“Earlier today, WhatsApp users globally had trouble accessing the app for about an hour. This issue has been fixed and we apologize for the inconvenience,” said a WhatsApp spokesperson in an e-mail response late on Friday.
WhatsApp said in July that one billion users now use the app on a daily basis. The company also said users send about 55 billion messages, 4.5 billion photos and 1 billion videos on a daily basis.
India is the largest market for WhatsApp with more than 200 million monthly active users.
The outage led to users across the world coming on to Twitter to air their grievances.
#FLASH: Whatsapp services reportedly non-functional at present in many parts of India. pic.twitter.com/BQsNaHxmcU
— ANI (@ANI) November 3, 2017
Breaking#Whatsapp services shut down in UP at 13.58no such information what actually happened @bstvlive
— Brajesh Misra (@brajeshlive) November 3, 2017
Its really difficult time for Chennai. Whatsapp is also down. Use twitter or FB to share News Friends. #ChennaiRains2017 #WhatsappDown— MADRAS CENTRAL (@MadrasCentraI) November 3, 2017
WhatAapp Application is down all over the world. Hope it will be restored soon. #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/XtppvN6bvm
— MilesWeb (@milesweb) November 3, 2017
Services have been partially restored as per media reports.
However, this is not the first time that WhatsApp services have gone down. Similar cases were reported in September and May when the app was down for a few hours in all parts of the world including Malaysia to Spain, Germany and some other European countries.
